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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages...
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World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
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This paper argues that detailed studies of particular economies, such as Bob Gregory%u2019s work on Australia, are …
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To investigate how fuel economy is valued in the Indian car market, we compute the cost to Indian consumers of … hedonic price functions for four market segments (petrol hatchbacks, diesel hatchbacks, petrol sedans, and diesel sedans) to … associated present value of fuel savings falls within the 95 percent confidence interval for some specifications, in all market …
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Safe assets are demanded to smooth consumption across states (both intertemporally and in cross-section). Some of these assets are supplied publicly (government bonds) and some are created and supplied privately (such as mortgagebacked securities and asset-backed securities). Private assets are...
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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within … their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market … advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and taste heterogeneity all matter for market outcomes, we find that a …
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the lease. This option price cannot be controlled when the car is sold. We show that in a world with symmetric information … behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect … tools; they cannot generally achieve first best while other mechanisms can. We also show that a producer with market power …
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Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …
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